Metropolitan municipality
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A metropolitan municipality is a type of municipality established in some countries to serve a metropolitan area.
Canada[]
In generic terms and in practical application within Canada, a metropolitan municipality is an urban local government with partial or complete consolidation of city and county services. The former Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, 1954-1998, was created by partial amalgamation of the City of Toronto with neighbouring towns and townships in southerly York County, from which the metropolitan municipality was then extracted. Each jurisdiction retained a degree of local autonomy, like the City of London and the boroughs in Greater London, while the Metropolitan government replaced the old county government and supervised metro-wide services, such as police, fire and ambulance.
Conversely, a rural area (or a suburban area flanked mostly by rural areas) in which county and municipal functions are wholly or partially consolidated is a regional municipality rather than a metropolitan municipality. As with metropolitan municipalities, sub-regional communities - cities, villages, townships - within the regional municipality retain a degree of local autonomy, with the regional government focusing mostly on shared public services (police, drinking water, etc.).
European Union[]
- Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona
- City State of Berlin
- Brussels-Capital Region
- Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia
- Greater Manchester
- Greater London Authority
- Metropolitan Stockholm
- South Yorkshire
- Tricity
- Grande Área Metropolitana
- Metropolitan municipalities of Italy
Europe/Asia[]
Iran[]
- Tehran
- Mashhad
- Isfahan
- Karaj
- Tabriz
- Shiraz
- Ahvaz
- Qom
- Kermanshah
- Urmia
- Rasht
- Zahedan
- Kerman
- Arak
- Hamadan
Nepal[]
There are total 6 Metropolitan municipality in Nepal, which is called "Mahanagarpalika". There are another 11 Sub-metropolitan municipality in Nepal which called "Up-mahanagarpalika".[1]
Metropolitan municipality[]
Sub-metropolitan municipality[]
Turkey[]
- Istanbul
- Izmir
- Ankara
- Bursa
- Adana
- Mersin
- Antalya
- Kocaeli
- Aydın
- Balıkesir
- Denizli
- Diyarbakır
- Erzurum
- Eskişehir
- Gaziantep
- Hatay
- Kahramanmaraş
- Kayseri
- Konya
- Malatya
- Manisa
- Mardin
- Mersin
- Muğla
- Ordu
- Sakarya
- Samsun
- Şanlıurfa
- Tekirdağ
- Trabzon
- Uşak
- Van
South Africa[]
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See also[]
- Amalgamation (politics)
- Metropolitan county
- Metropolitan borough
- Sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2018-09-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Political geography